'The Girl in Question'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm not being good about articulating my thoughts, but short version: fb algorithms deciding you are black because you give a fuck is an indictment of the whiteness of fb inside. Systemic racism at work in weird but unsurprising ways.
Yes, this. I, too, am apparently black according to FB.
it's probably because we all give a fuck about BLM and racism.
Yep. I blocked the worst of the right-wing pages posting anti-BLM memes a couple of years ago. I have noticed the occasional ad for Essence magazine since then.
I stopped posting to facebook some time ago. I follow relatives and folks I don't see elsewhere, and comment on pictures and posts, or like links, etc. But I don't post original content and don't have much of a presence on FB, or pretty much anywhere.
I adopted the same policy with LJ, and am doing any original content posting xposted from Dreamwidth, though I comment on my flistie's LJ posts. I have a twitter account, but it's mostly for confirming fandom-related rumors, again, I make no original content posts, nor retweet content on my own account.
And I'm on a laptop. My phone, while minimally intelligent, is deliberately not internet-enabled. I realize this wouldn't work for everybody, and I have no illusions that my privacy is any more secure than if I were posting nudes all over twitter and facebook and getting in slapfights with people whose opinions I disagree with. But I'm okay with that.
You just reminded me... I was attempting to clean out email and came across a notification from LJ that said my account had been deleted. I thought, "Huh? I deleted that ages ago." Now that I've read the email, it looks like they're purging old deleted accounts now but if I had responded within 3 days of the email I could've un-deleted the account. Delete seems to be a fuzzy term.
Facebook does NOT think I'm black, and now I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.
I should check on my abandoned LJ accounts to see if they're still alive.
I feel like I should delete FB but I won't. If I did, I'd lose touch with a few people I don't want to lose. I know they don't want to lose touch with me either, and I know that none of us are really interested in trying to find another way to stay in touch. Because life is complicated, and what we're already doing is easy. I guess basically I feel like -t said. This mess isn't my fault and I don't think that I should have to lose something that's valuable to me to fix it. FB needs to fix it. I will of course be locking down my privacy settings and not taking any more quizzes though. I wonder if they think I'm black? Probably
It's sort of extra funny that Facebook thinks I'm black, because maybe 40% of my posts are about Korean pop music. But Facebook doesn't think I'm Asian. (Youtube sort of does - I get MacDonald's ads in Korean now.)
I'm FB black, too. (I'm also "very liberal" but that's less surprising.)
I'm not being good about articulating my thoughts, but short version: fb algorithms deciding you are black because you give a fuck is an indictment of the whiteness of fb inside. Systemic racism at work in weird but unsurprising ways.
it's probably because we all give a fuck about BLM and racism.
Yep. I'm gonna consider this a badge of giving-a-f**k honor.
It's sort of extra funny that Facebook thinks I'm black, because maybe 40% of my posts are about Korean pop music. But Facebook doesn't think I'm Asian. (Youtube sort of does - I get MacDonald's ads in Korean now.)
I was in a meeting yesterday where someone said her 12-year-old daughter is teaching herself Korean, and I didn't have a chance to ask if it's because of K-pop, but it's totally because of K-pop.
Facebook does NOT think I'm black, and now I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.
Right there with you. It does apparently think I'm a Republican Millennial, however.